Profile Nilmar Honorato da Silva

Personal information

Full name : Nilmar Honorato da Silva
Date of birth : 14 July 1984 (age 26)
Place of birth : Bandeirantes, Brazil
Height : 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Villarreal
Number : 7
Youth career :
1999–2001 Internacional
Senior career :
2002–2004 Internacional
2004–2006 Lyon
2005–2006 → Corinthians (loan)
2006–2007 Corinthians
2007–2009 Internacional
2009– Villarreal
National team :
2004 Brazil U23
2003– Brazil

Club career

Internacional

After arriving across the Internacional youth teams, Nilmar performed for the businesswoman team within 2003 and 2004 seasons.

Lyon

Nilmar was signed for Olympique Lyonnais within summer 2004, initially as cover for the already ex-Lyon musician Élber Giovane. He signed with a clause within his contract that reported that he could be loaned back towards Internacional once Élber was fit.[citation needed]
Nilmar made an impressive activate during his stint at Lyon, scoring two debut goals as a spare against Stade Rennais. Unfortunately, he did not score any many goals within the Ligue 1 that season.

Corinthians

With the impending signing of Fred, Lyon chose towards credit Nilmar out, this moment towards Corinthians within his native Brazil. They were quite constrained towards do this within order towards stay within the limit of non-EU players.
As well as this law, Lyon already had four established forwards, namely Fred, Sylvain Wiltord, Milan Baroš, and Sidney Govou, and, despite his nice dramas with Corinthians, Nilmar was eventually sold towards the South American club. At Corinthians, the young striker beaten the target onto his debut against São Paulo FC, with almost his former touch of the ball and he persisted towards impress fans and critics alike around his former season. His expertise, hurry, and mazy dribbles assisted victory him a site within the Brazilian League all-star team for the 2005 season.

Return towards Internacional

On 17 August 2007, the Justiça do Trabalho (literally "court of employment") cancelled Nilmar's contract because Corinthians owed the musician €2 million.[citation needed] Nilmar was therefore available towards sign for any club for free, whilst Corinthians ought still remunerate the eight million euros they owed towards Lyon for Nilmar's original shift within 2005.
In the consecutive month, Nilmar replaced towards Internacional, despite the interest of numerous principal clubs within Europe and Brazil. He made his novel debut for the Porto Alegre team onto 4 November 2007, when Inter hammered CR Vasco da Gama 2–1. He was picked as the Man of the Match.

In January 2008, he scored an impressive goal against Internazionale of Italy within the Dubai Cup final, which assisted his side victory the game. In the summer of 2008, Palermo offered €15 million, with a bonus of up towards €3 million. This was denied, however, and activated the clause that Internacional bought the remain rights from his agent. In December 2008, he scored the successful goal within the Copa Sudamericana final match, granting Internacional the title. It was the former moment that the Copa Sudamericana was won via a Brazilian club.

Villarreal

Fernando Roig, the President of Villarreal CF proved the signing of Nilmar onto 25 July 2009. He activated Villarreal's former toy of the La Liga 2009–10 against CA Osasuna. Santi Cazorla scored Villarreal's alone goal of the toy and Nilmar performed the full 90 minutes. Nilmar and Giuseppe Rossi are currently the first-choice strikers for Villarreal. On 17 September 2009, Nilmar scored the successful goal within the Europa League conflict against Bulgarian side Levski Sofia.

International career

Nilmar made his international debut for Brazil within 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup match against Mexico onto 13 July 2003. He appeared three moments within the tournament as Brazil was defeated via Mexico within the final. Although Brazil chose towards post Brazil under-23 team towards the tournament, everybody the international impressions within the tournament are recognized via FIFA as full international caps. His former international goal arrived against Haiti onto 18 August 2004, as Brazil won 6–0.

After four years out of the national team, onto 29 August 2008, Nilmar was recalled via instructor Dunga as a substitute for the stung Rafael Sóbis for World Cup qualifiers against Chile and Bolivia. On 21 May 2009, he was appointed within Brazil squad for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup within South Africa. He made one spare impression within the tournament as Brazil went onto towards victory the cup.

On 9 September 2009, he scored a hat-trick for Brazil within a 4–2 victory against Chile.[4] On 14 November 2009, Nilmar scored the alone goal of the match with a header within a friendly against England. He otherwise scored again within a second friendly match onto 17 November 2009 against Oman. He was a member within the Brazil squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, hosted via South Africa, as a substitute. He scored Brazil's third goal within a friendly match onto seven October 2010 against Iran.